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A tool for estimating disturbed forest site sediment production
Elliot, W.J.; Foltz, R.B.; Robichaud, P.R. 1994.
A tool for estimating disturbed forest site sediment production.
In: Baumgartner, D.M.; Lotan, J.E.; Tonn, J.R., eds.
Proceedings, Interior Cedar-Hemlock-White Pine Forests: Ecology and Management;
1993 March 2-4; Spokane, WA.
Pullman, WA: Washington State University Cooperative Extension: 233-236.
Keywords: soil erosion, modeling, prediction, WEPP
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Abstract:
The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is
developing a process-based model of rainfall-runoff and sediment erosion
on disturbed forest sites, principally forest roads and timber harvest
areas. The basis of the developing model is the Water Erosion Prediction
Project (WEPP) model developed for agriculture and rangelands. The major
challenges in adapting this model to mountainous forest conditions are
differences in parameter estimation techniques, weather prediction,
vegetation effects, and management activities. Simulated and natural
rainfall experiments are used for parameter estimations from forest roads
and timber harvest areas. Several model components and parameter
estimations from field and laboratory experiments are discussed.
Moscow FSL publication no. 1994f
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